> On Sep 12, 2024, at 06:58, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But if it works for you, go ahead. As Tom said, it will work 95% of the time.
> But it will break things that should work, and it will not prevent the
> ability to get the information in other ways. To be clear, we never recommend
> messing with the system catalogs, and this falls under the umbrella of
> messing with the system catalogs.
I can only echo that if the compliance people are taking a position that "you
need to make an unsupported, ad-hoc modification to the database software's
authentication system in order to meet this requirement," then the requirement
is one that you should run, not walk, to get a waiver to, as that's a very
unreasonable position for them to take.
